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Texas Penal Code § 1.09

Concurrent Jurisdiction under This Code to Prosecute Offenses That Involve State Property

General Provisions

With the consent of the appropriate local county or district attorney, the attorney general has concurrent jurisdiction with that consenting local prosecutor to prosecute under this code any offense an element of which occurs on state property or any offense that involves the use, unlawful appropriation, or misapplication of state property, including state funds.

Official text of the Texas Penal Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 378 (S.B. 563), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.